Job summary
Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Islington Young People's Service
We are seeking an energetic, innovative, and skilled Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with a passion for community psychology approaches to join the trust's Young People's Service, specialising in working with young adults (18-25), providing assessment, treatment and consultation around Young Adults' mental health. Core Team Community Mental Health Services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation and investment over the next 3 years. Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust are at the forefront of this transformation, developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to supporting people with Mental illnesses, in partnership with primary care, other community NHS providers and the voluntary sector. The Young People's Service mission is to reach young people who find mainstream mental health offers to be out of reach. The post holder will work flexibly to provide accessible, consistent, and boundaried relational support to young people who have often lost trust in services.
Main duties of the job
- Specialising in working with young people aged 18-25 who find mental health support hard to access, the post holder will work to re-build trust with these young people - using a relational model and goal-based outcome monitoring to co-produce what positive progress is with each young person.
- Providing a combination of consultation, liaison and advice to other professionals including youth workers, GPs, mental health practitioners to help them better engage with young adults supported by the YPS.
- The post holders will be one of the providers of psychological formulation and work closely with YPS colleagues as well as leaning on support within the wider core team MDTs.
- The post holders will provide specialist psychological assessment and make recommendations for intervention using the evidence base and NICE Guidance.
About us
Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?
We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillar
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Young Peoples' Service has been set up to provide specialist support and intervention to young adults for whom traditional offers of support can fall short. In particular, young adults who may be disenfranchised and marginalised from mainstream society, who may have been involved in the criminal justice system or be labelled as 'hard to reach' in some way. Built on innovative work by MAC UK and Project 10/10, NLFT continues to lead the way in making services more accessible and taking a trauma-informed, community psychology approach to systemic change. The team will always consider a young person's social context and the impact that this may have had on their mental health and wellbeing when developing ideas about how best to provide help and support. As a Psychologist embedded in Islington's Core Team, you will be uniquely positioned to influence the culture of how we work in new and collaborative ways, co-creating this approach with the young people. Providing direct assessments and Psychological Interventions for young adults as well as providing training and consultation for colleagues within the Core Team and community partners, you will be working to raise the profile of Young Adult work across the rest of the service. You may have a background in CAMHS and/or Adult Mental Health; both will be welcomed, provided you have energy and enthusiasm for making a difference to the mental health and wellbeing of young people. As well as being strongly influenced by community psychology approaches, we are committed to training all YPS staff in AMBIT, but also draw on other mentalisation-based models in our work. You will have regular clinical/professional and Line Management Supervision, access to a robust training and CPD offer from the Trust, and your ideas for training options for the service will be welcomed. You will be joining two new dynamic and well-resourced clinical pathways dedicated to meeting the needs of young people, rooted in collaborative and creative approaches.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Young Peoples' Service has been set up to provide specialist support and intervention to young adults for whom traditional offers of support can fall short. In particular, young adults who may be disenfranchised and marginalised from mainstream society, who may have been involved in the criminal justice system or be labelled as 'hard to reach' in some way. Built on innovative work by MAC UK and Project 10/10, NLFT continues to lead the way in making services more accessible and taking a trauma-informed, community psychology approach to systemic change. The team will always consider a young person's social context and the impact that this may have had on their mental health and wellbeing when developing ideas about how best to provide help and support. As a Psychologist embedded in Islington's Core Team, you will be uniquely positioned to influence the culture of how we work in new and collaborative ways, co-creating this approach with the young people. Providing direct assessments and Psychological Interventions for young adults as well as providing training and consultation for colleagues within the Core Team and community partners, you will be working to raise the profile of Young Adult work across the rest of the service. You may have a background in CAMHS and/or Adult Mental Health; both will be welcomed, provided you have energy and enthusiasm for making a difference to the mental health and wellbeing of young people. As well as being strongly influenced by community psychology approaches, we are committed to training all YPS staff in AMBIT, but also draw on other mentalisation-based models in our work. You will have regular clinical/professional and Line Management Supervision, access to a robust training and CPD offer from the Trust, and your ideas for training options for the service will be welcomed. You will be joining two new dynamic and well-resourced clinical pathways dedicated to meeting the needs of young people, rooted in collaborative and creative approaches.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or counselling psychology.
- Current registration with the Health Professions Council as a clinical or counselling psychologist Experience
Desirable
- Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in an area relevant to the post
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests) intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health, including challenging behaviours.
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice
- Interest and ability to contribute to service development
Desirable
- Skills in working with Young Adults aged between 18-25
- Skills in engaging young people who have had negative experiences with professionals in the past and who might not have faith in mandatory services as a result.
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of service users with a wide range of presentations in a specialist community mental health service
- Experience of working in a Primary Care Setting
- Experience of working with young adults and/or children who find mainstream offers of support to be hard to access.
- Experience of teaching, training and offering effective consultation and supervision services
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health and Care Professions Council and British Psychological Society
Desirable
- Knowledge of the issues that impact on the metal health of Young Adults aged between 18-25
- Knowledge of community psychology approaches, especially the importance of coproduction when working with systemic power imbalances
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Experience/knowledge of working with other professional groups such as youth workers, council staff, probation workers, and the potential complexities of their systems and work cultures.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- oAbility to work both independently and cooperatively as part of a diverse team oExcellent interpersonal, written and verbal skills oDemonstrable resourcefulness oAbility to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- oPositive attitude to change oAbility to carry out travel around the designated area of work, at times in non-clinical settings (e.g. youth provision) oA genuine commitment to an ethos of partnership working across sectors and agencies oAbility to work in both a flexible and disciplined way oAble to build and develop relationships with a wide range of people, both colleagues, partners, young people and their families like. oAn ability to work collaboratively and creatively with people and have the patience to allow new approaches to emerge from the relationships with our key stakeholders oAbility to stay calm and focused under often stressful and intense conditions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or counselling psychology.
- Current registration with the Health Professions Council as a clinical or counselling psychologist Experience
Desirable
- Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in an area relevant to the post
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests) intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health, including challenging behaviours.
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice
- Interest and ability to contribute to service development
Desirable
- Skills in working with Young Adults aged between 18-25
- Skills in engaging young people who have had negative experiences with professionals in the past and who might not have faith in mandatory services as a result.
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of service users with a wide range of presentations in a specialist community mental health service
- Experience of working in a Primary Care Setting
- Experience of working with young adults and/or children who find mainstream offers of support to be hard to access.
- Experience of teaching, training and offering effective consultation and supervision services
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health and Care Professions Council and British Psychological Society
Desirable
- Knowledge of the issues that impact on the metal health of Young Adults aged between 18-25
- Knowledge of community psychology approaches, especially the importance of coproduction when working with systemic power imbalances
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Experience/knowledge of working with other professional groups such as youth workers, council staff, probation workers, and the potential complexities of their systems and work cultures.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- oAbility to work both independently and cooperatively as part of a diverse team oExcellent interpersonal, written and verbal skills oDemonstrable resourcefulness oAbility to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- oPositive attitude to change oAbility to carry out travel around the designated area of work, at times in non-clinical settings (e.g. youth provision) oA genuine commitment to an ethos of partnership working across sectors and agencies oAbility to work in both a flexible and disciplined way oAble to build and develop relationships with a wide range of people, both colleagues, partners, young people and their families like. oAn ability to work collaboratively and creatively with people and have the patience to allow new approaches to emerge from the relationships with our key stakeholders oAbility to stay calm and focused under often stressful and intense conditions.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
